Family desperate for answers after model found dead in DTLA apartment

The family of a 32-year-old model who was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment is desperate for answers as police investigate the death of another model who was also found in the same area.
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[@gridley]

Don't the two apt buildings, one at Fig & 3rd, the other at 8th & Grand, have fairly good security? Isn't their closed-circuit footage? Why is the death of the 2nd model not already listed as a murder if her face was so disfigured it was unrecognizable?

[@DesmondJohnson-og4oy]

@Flowers777 Bullshit, they got cameras they know who in a luxury apartments, It's not no projects 😂

[@Queendomist]

As a black woman living in LA. This is chilling. Omg . Black women are under major attack🙏

[@Mila-lu4mb]

Yes we are 😢

[@warrioroflight3813]

Not wanting to say this, but many "Models' moonlight as escorts. My guess is the 2 models that have perished may have gone out with the same Man. Investigators need to search their phone records and social media accounts and see if the same number or person appears.

[@audit_the_frauditors]

So you know what exactly happen? Why haven’t you given your information to the cops?

[@lisapalmer4725]

​@warrioroflight3813 yes, like Instagram "models"

[@diegoflores9237]

The grim sleeper is back killing crackheads

[@SunshineSpring-ye2wl]

It's time to start sharing information with your family or friends, who your going out with, and who your letting in.

[@Dlemon001]

My prayers and condolences 🕊

[@GeraldBoykin-dw9xe]

If you are in the modeling business secure your door and purchase a gun asap. This is off the chains!!!

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

The other woman went on a date, maybe she did too

[@GeraldBoykin-dw9xe]

​@@larsonfamilyhouse: None left the apartment, lane brains!

[@nayjavu]

​@@GeraldBoykin-dw9xewhat is wrong with you? You never heard of people going on a date and bringing them back to your place? Lol.

[@GeraldBoykin-dw9xe]

@@nayjavu : If that was the case stupid Sherlock. The case will be solved asap. Stop buying your brains out of WALMART!

[@PokahontasCuetlachtli]

Being single is okay. Ladies stay safe.

[@Kevin.e.Turner]

What about being an escort?

[@adriennenicole7687]

Heartbreaking.

[@Scorpio12348]

It’s scary for any woman that lives alone. There are so many evil people in this world. I wonder if the same man did this to these two women? Please women, be very very careful who you allow into your home. Don’t just let anyone without really checking these men.

[@heyyall1912]

sorry to her family for the lost of their loved one 😢🙏🙏... they get closer

[@intheshell35ify]

You can be pretty enough to drive a dude insane. There is a level of hotness that becomes difficult to reconcile.

[@First1ToComment]

Check the cameras in the "luxury" apartments

[@Kevin.e.Turner]

Gotta fund that lifestyle. 😺 💰

[@audit_the_frauditors]

Yeah cause the cops didn’t think to check cameras….you’re the only one to do that

[@First1ToComment]

@@audit_the_frauditors yup I'm smarter than them

[@audit_the_frauditors]

@@First1ToComment then why haven’t you solved this

[@First1ToComment]

@@audit_the_frauditors got better things to do !

[@victoriaalford4108]

Omg 😢😢😢😢

[@HarmonybonesBlueberryJohnson]

And also raining out to Airbnb to help you pay your rent. That is a lot of what goes on in our community with our young people nowadays.

[@sorcereradventurer]

It’s a highly camera location, truth will be found out.

[@katrinawall7758]

She was pretty. Really sad that they're killing our black women. My condolences to her family and friends. Is there no cameras

[@dski8097]

The sugar daddy knows who did it.

[@jesusgallegos6772]

It could be the same suspect leaving a Trace of what he does to the model after killing them 😮.

[@code-52]

😢 for the families and friends. It is highly suspensions. Serial killer???

[@diegoflores9237]

Model?

[@lf1496]

You just told everyone you're 👹🤮

[@geerowr.6666]

KARMA had you address already. Thanks for raising your hand to remind her. These were two beautiful Black women! Shouldn't you be selling water at Dodger Stadium. LOL

[@Mikemikeswehomenow]

Fancy word for escort

[@Cecelovesbirdie]

@@geerowr.6666karma is ready for u too. 2 wrongs…

[@losangeleslakers1650]

@@geerowr.6666 lmfao you are a racist and no better than the white man that you feel oppressed you. instead your mind is your prison. Lol speaking on karma . That’s why your people pay every day because of your big mouths.

[@CynicalDelight69420]

Lifetime movie coming in 3,2,1.

[@Kevin.e.Turner]

Selling the body for the bag. Directed by Tyler Perry. Lifetime exclusive.

[@joshuasJR]

Puiewhlp Louie auiiewhlll hauh flex

[@buttafinga]

She looks average to me so maybe she wasn't making enough as a model and had to do other things to supplement her income

[@diegoflores9237]

Below average. I've seen better at popeyes

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

They didn’t say she was a professional model, though.

[@DialloMoore503]

Let’s see a picture of your average face.

[@trumpwon8064]

Yeah probably doing what she had to, to make ends meet. Definitely wasn't making much just modeling

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Models typically are picked for their stature and body, you model clothes generally

[@CBD7069..]

Damn, all these hate comments on a report of someone who died.

[@jillmarshall4718]

My Sincere Condolences to Nikki Family, in this Horrific Crime. Another Beautiful, Black, Young, Model, Woman found dead in her Apartment. Sounds like a Serial killer in Los Angeles. About 3 Days before they found another Beautiful, Young, Black, Model Woman dead in her Apartment. The Similarities are the same. Los Angeles Police dept, Get up off your Behind, And find out what happened to these Ladies. I Hope and Pray that Justice will come to these Family. RIP Melissa and Nikki Always 🙏💙🙏❤️❤️🙏🙏

[@traceygrant3386]

My prayers and condolences beautiful young lady.🤍🤍🕊🕊🙏🙏

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

I hope they find whoever did this to her. They need to warn people!

[@nayjavu]

I think you got the warning. 2 people in the same area, similar lifestyle. You've been warned

[@Theortricesiii]

I hope the family get answers and the perpetrator is caught. Los Angeles is a bad place for everyday citizens trying to avoid homelessness.

[@DialloMoore503]

My condolences. May her family find closure and justice if foul play was involved.

[@FishFace1776-mi7ce]

Just don't call the cops. They don't have the funding to help you. BLM - "defund police!!"

[@claudettepena9200]

No CCTVs?

[@audit_the_frauditors]

You dumb.?

[@alphamamudubah4729]

May the soul rest in perfect peace may Allah grant her Jannah 🙏

[@allaboutthepause3000]

This is not the first time black women are targeted for serial killers in Los Angeles ladies please stand on your guard always you never know who this person could be

[@wellthatsinteresting1]

These are upscale apartments where there are likely cameras and a concierge. Also Lapd has a racist history so PIs should be hired

[@nayjavu]

Pretty ignorant to generalize an entire profession.

[@racheltabron2086]

How are they not ruling a homicide for Nikki a homicide if her face was unrecognizable 😮 !!!!! And the other dead model was beat in face too !!! We, the public & THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE BETTER

[@DesmondJohnson-og4oy]

Tryna hide evidence..Tourism is all they care about in LA😢

[@justhimo2728]

the police 😂 dosen't work good why they dosen't arrest the criminal who put fear on people this is very dangerous

[@valeriebrown7946]

Fans Only, Internet Dating, some photographer offering to make them a star, maybe a rapper said they could be in a video, etc. You have models and you have self proclaimed instagram models. Yet you let someone in your apartment. Smh. May these ladies rest in peace.

[@charmaine9920]

ladies be careful because this sound like something sinister is going on here. There was a beautiful white model back in the 80s that had a interview with a photographer she met at a mall or some place she went to meet him and he raped her and made her pose in suggestive photos and eventually killed her ,but he got caught because he had rented a car and her finger prints was all in it . And then he threw away her profolio and the camera and re ter agreement to car in a dumpster near where she was found lucky for cops he was a dummy and they arrested him and the camera had evidence of photos in the camera .

[@hwanlove]

Devil's advocate here, dont hate on me but could this be a murder suicide?

[@WilliamDague]

Don't know how it could be

[@MeeMee-gz5vp]

Most likely, it was someone she knew. The modeling world is full of shady characters.

[@elisamartinelli7676]

Maybe she was beaten, but if it's a serial killer That also makes sense, too. Typically, they have a type that possibly reminds them of someone they hate. It is odd that her facial features are similar of that other woman.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

The other woman went on a date, maybe she did too

[@Kevin.e.Turner]

Yup. Probably a client of hers who knows her very intimately.

[@audit_the_frauditors]

Maybe you should help the cops with the investigation

[@moonempress8366]

🙏🏽🕊️🙏🏽🕊️🙏🏽

[@newvideoplaylist]

Praying that the demon who did this is returned to hell VERY quickly by any means necessary. Prayers to the deceased and their loved ones for peace and healing.

[@yoyo8303]

JESUS JESUS JESUS JESUS WHAT WERE THEY INVOLVED IN.

[@fatimahe.s.2634]

They look alike #1 went missing the same day #2 and it's not related hmmm 🤔ok random drug test the whole department the math ain't matching either they know each other, mistaken identity, or Issa serial killer 😮‍💨 I pray that the families get justice

[@Crivityx_1]

ONLY IN OHIO 💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️💀☠️

[@audit_the_frauditors]

What?

[@ariahlea]

I went to high school with Nikki Coats! I’m so lost for words right now. I’m shaking and my heart is aching currently. She was the sweetest thing, smart, talented and just a darling overall even back when she was a teenager. Wow. My deepest condolences to Ms. Coats and the family.🥺🙏🏽

[@nayjavu]

Do you're going to every comment section leaving this comment?

[@reneedennis2011]

I am so sorry 😞.

[@cosmictruth6333]

We don't care! Get it through your big empty skull 😅

[@SNKR_HEAD83]

You aren't shaking 😅 drama queen

[@Antony-xv1gl]

Serial killer?

[@theearnmoreyouagainmoreres8250]

Sad story thumbs down 😢

[@MikeGuzman-t6f]

Model? Wow, I guess I’m a model too. Everyone is a model haha

[@lf1496]

No you're a HATER KAREN who never could imagine being pretty like her.

[@justforfun-xm8ii]

this is your response to someone who was brutally murdered? what a sad world

[@MikeGuzman-t6f]

@@justforfun-xm8ii well that part is terrible. The headlines were bad too.

[@MySweetAriane]

They are beautiful women. Stop being hateful.

[@roxanne9016]

correction... No YOUR'E not. how do you hate on the dead PATHETIC😂

[@FishFace1776-mi7ce]

BLM - "Defund police!" Also, BLM - "HELP! Call the cops!!"

[@FloridamadeJay81]

Worry about your own affairs. I bet no one love u😂😂😂💯

[@DialloMoore503]

This isn’t about your political agenda. Police departments do their jobs. No one asked cops to help anything.

[@FishFace1776-mi7ce]

@@DialloMoore503 hypocrisy

[@trumpwon8064]

​@@DialloMoore503😂

[@Kevin.e.Turner]

You bounce around from channel to channel saying the same ish. Police were never defunded fool. Yet, weren't you maga maggots as talking about defund the FBI? Get a job maga maggot an stop stalking news channels talking about this story.

[@malaika444]

This is so disturbing. Nikki was absolutely beautiful. No comparison to the first young lady. I hope her family finds out who did it!

[@allaboutthepause3000]

Both equally gorgeous women

[@Cassandrabb]

Theirs both beautiful

[@kendalgee5808]

How did she afford the rent? Did she live a double life? These are real questions u need to investigate .

[@lannak21]

She was a model.

[@warrioroflight3813]

Exactly, most "Models" especially over thirty years old moonlight as escorts. Could be the same client. They need to look at their phone records and compare numbers also their social media. Regular everyday models don't make enough to cover luxury rent + bills. Not trying to be disrespectful, but the perpetrator needs to be caught and other "Models" need to be on alert.

[@audit_the_frauditors]

Just because you don’t make money doesn’t mean others don’t

[@GovernmentIssued]

They are their own worst enemies and everyone else's too.

[@DesmondJohnson-og4oy]

U sound ignorant

[@nitroDubbs]

She doin tha stanky leg 🙏🤲🦵😇